Geography
Agriculture and Inventions
Monarchy and Polytheism
Achievements and Laws
Unit 1 Review
100

Number 4

What is the Tigris River.

100

How did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers make Mesopotamia fertile?

Flooding and depositing silt.

100

First Civilization in the Fertile Crescent. 

Sumer

100

Epic written in Mesopotamia. Oldest known epic.

Epic of Gilgamesh
100

Anno Domini

The year of the Lord. 

200

The letter W. 

Mesopotamia 

200

How did the plow change early civilization.

Helped create a food surplus. 

200

Government controlled by a King, Queen, or Emperor.

Monarchy

200

Method of digging canals to move water from the rivers to the crops. 

Irrigation.

200

Same time period as Before Christ. 

Before Common Era

300

Number 4 

Persian Gulf 

300

Area of fertile soil between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea that is in a curved quarter moon shape. 

Fertile Crescent. 

300

The belief in more than one god. 

Polytheism 

300

Large Mesopotamian temple that stored government documents and was surrounded by markets. 

Ziggurat

300

The exchange of goods and services without using money. 

barter

400

Number 2 

The Black Sea

400

Allowed the people to travel and spread throughout the region using rivers and waterways. 

The Sail

400

How Sumerian rulers encouraged people to obey them as part of their religious duty. 

Claimed to be chosen by gods. 

400

First set of written/recorded laws in Mesopotamia.

Code of Hammurabi 

400

Which Characteristic of civilization is missing?

Social Structure                      Religion

Government                          Writing 

Culture                                  Technology

Stable Food Supply

500

Name the rivers that Mesopotamia is located between. 

Tigris and Euphrates

500

The study of metals that allowed Sumerians to make stronger tools and weapons. 

Metallurgy
500

Ruler of the first known empire. 

King Sargon

500

How did social class affect punishment under the Code of Hammurabi?

Higher classes received less harsh punishment. 

500

Food Surplus will always lead to __________________.

Labor Specialization